Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Liquid biopsy-based single-cell metabolic phenotyping of lung cancer patients for informative diagnostics

  • Ziming Li,
  • Zhuo Wang,
  • Yin Tang,
  • Xiang Lu,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Yu Dong,
  • Baojun Wu,
  • Chunying Wang,
  • Liu Yang,
  • Zhili Guo,
  • Min Xue,
  • Shun Lu,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Qihui Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11808-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Non-invasive methods to predict treatment response are urgently needed. Here in lung cancer, the authors develop a single-cell on-chip cytometry method to metabolically phenotype disseminated tumor cells, revealing metabolic heterogeneity and predictors of therapy response and survival.